July 3, 2024
A D.C.-based property management company has settled a lawsuit from the Equal Rights Center (ERC) accusing the company of discriminating against potential residents by denying them housing on illegal grounds.
ERC’s lawsuit accused AIR Property Management TRS, known as AIR Communities, of discriminating against voucher holders and using “overbroad eviction and criminal history screenings,” at two of its Northwest D.C. apartment complexes.
As part of the settlement, AIR Communities — which owns and manages Latrobe Apartment Homes in Logan Circle, Upton Place in Cathedral Heights and Vaughan Place in McLean Gardens — has agreed not to deny applicants based on criminal convictions more than seven years old and evictions more than three years old, in compliance with D.C. law.
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